I’m still not that far in the game – only level 17 out of 50 – but I’ve played more recently and (gasp) actually started mining!

According to my wife that’s the way to go – I hadn’t really been doing that much of it before.

For me, it’s been hacking Leap Gates non-stop. The main reason for this is I completed the mission series of finding “The Lost,” which gave me all the Psi symbols. You had to cruise around most of the map to do this, so now almost the entire map is open to me.

So now I can skip the battle with any ship – which is a good thing since I’m too weak to take fools out with ease yet.

I’m still in the MRI Blade (my original ship) as well … definitely looking forward to getting a new ship. I’m savin’ up my credits – it’ll be just like Christmas!